Fair Game with Robert Smith

Todd Boltin has been booking entertainment into events for over three decades. He’s been nominated 13 times for the Academy of Country Music’s Talent Buyer of the Year award and he took home the honor...

12 Feb 20211h 15min

The Coconino County Fair in Flagstaff, AZ is operated by the county parks & recreation department. Today’s guest is the man who puts that fair together every year, Ricky Conway. Ricky catches us up on...

11 Feb 20211h 16min

Today we sit down to chat with the COO of the Sonoma County Fair, Kaitlyn Findley-Thorn. We talk the pandemic, Kaitlyn’s law degree (bet you didn’t see that coming), and the future of the fair industr...

10 Feb 202158min

Today’s guest is a veteran in the fair industry. In 2020 his fair modified their event in a manner which cancelled the traditional fair but still operated their rodeo and livestock shows. Dustin Coufa...

9 Feb 202157min

Today I’m joined by Karen Nicklas, the general manager for The Great Frederick Fair in Frederick, Maryland. Karen was named the GM of the fair at the end of 2019. Her first year was full of hope and e...

8 Feb 20211h 7min

Jennifer Giesike wears many hats. She iis the general manager for the Washington Town & Country Fair in Washington, Missouri as well as their Chamber of Commerce CEO. She was recently announced as the...

5 Feb 20211h 18min

Alexcia Jordan is the General Manager of the North Idaho State Fair in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. She has a pedigree in this industry having been raised through 4H and FFA, not to mention her mother was th...

4 Feb 202157min

Andrea Thayer is the entertainment director for the Washington State Fair - one of America’s largest state fairs. We sit down and talk about the heartbreak of losing the fair plus the challenges of ma...

3 Feb 202147min